Daniel Birnbaum, Mark Lies, Craig Simonsen and Adam Young | Seyfarth Shaw Seyfarth Synopsis: By ignoring the terms of a settlement agreement it had with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), a New Jersey roofing contractor now faces more than $600,000 in penalties after numerous citations for allegedly failing to abate 2020 OSHA citations. Employers… Continue reading Cardinal Sin – Construction Contractor’s Alleged Failure to Abate OSHA Citations Results in Big Penalties
Category: OSHA
OSHA Standard Changes That Will Impact Construction
Courtney Malveaux | Jackson Lewis The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) regulatory agenda for spring 2021 lists regulations the agency will focus on for the next six months, including 26 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, six of which are in the final rule stage and the rest are in the proposed or pre-rule stage. Many… Continue reading OSHA Standard Changes That Will Impact Construction
Eleventh Circuit Says General Contractor Was Responsible for Subcontractor’s Safety Practices
Jonathan Crotty | Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein Under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s multiemployer worksite doctrine, a company can be cited for safety violations that it did not create and for hazards to which its own employees were never exposed. The doctrine is used most often in the construction industry, where a general… Continue reading Eleventh Circuit Says General Contractor Was Responsible for Subcontractor’s Safety Practices
OSHA Issues COVID-19 Guidance for Construction Industry
Garret Murai | California Construction Law Blog This past month, after remaining relatively quiet following the coronavirus outbreak, OSHA began issuing industry-specific guidance on how to deal with the coronavirus in the workplace. Until this month, the only construction industry specific guidance issued by OSHA was an OSHA Alert entitled COVID-19 Guidance for the Construction Workforce,… Continue reading OSHA Issues COVID-19 Guidance for Construction Industry
Fall Protection During a Pandemic
Kristin White | Fisher Phillips Fall protection in construction is one of the most cited OSHA standards across all industries, with fall protection training in construction being the eighth most-cited. More importantly, falls constitute more than a third of construction deaths, dwarfing the next three causes combined. Outside of construction industries, falls remain a leading… Continue reading Fall Protection During a Pandemic